I want to be like ………

I can remember growing up and hearing the phrase “Be Like Mike”.  We all wanted to grow up to be like somebody.  I remember adults asking me what I wanted to be when I grow up.  I think they were trying to get ideas for themselves.  Today my kids do the same thing.  Some want to grow up and be a cop, others want to grow up and be like dad.  Stop for a minute and think about what your dream was.  Did you achieve it?  Are you sure you missed it?  You see God created us to be us, not somebody else.  If God wanted more than one Mike, He could have created another one and then neither would be near as special.  God says that He knew us in our mother’s womb, that He knit us together in the womb.  Don’t you think that He could have done something else if He desired.  As a pastor sometimes I get caught up in wanting to be like another pastor somewhere and then God reminds me that He called me because who knows me.  Our desire to be like anyone should be to be like Jesus.  Allow me to be frank, no really let me be straight here with you, just be you.  It works for Popeye when he says “I am who I am and that is all that I am.”